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Yay! It is Christmas morning in my house today. My family has Christmas whenever people can get together. This year Christmas with my immediate family is today at my house (whenever Denis gets out of the shower, my sister and boyfriend get back from Starbucks, and my parents trek over from my uncle's.) We're also have Christmas with my extended family next Saturday in New Hampshire.
Jury duty is intellectually interesting and emotionally difficult. The other jurors continue to be lovely, interesting, and for-the-most-part rational people so I think it's as good as it could be. I mean if bad things didn't happen to people we wouldn't have to be there.
Friday my parents flew in and we had dinner with them and my uncle at his house. Then six of us (my uncle's friend came too) went to see the Nutcracker at the Kennedy Center. It was really lovely. I hadn't seen the Nutcracker since I was a little girl so it was really fun to see it again. The production was neat and the dancing great. My uncle knows the head of the costume section so afterwards we went backstage. It was fun to see all the sets and props and to stand on the stage.
Yesterday we hung out with my parents at our place until my sister and her boyfriend arrived. We had dinner at my uncle's with two of my cousins who are in town and a bunch of my uncle's friends. There were probably about 15 people and it was a really nice mix of family and people I hadn't met. Tonight we're going out to Notti Bianche.
Merry Christmas!
ETA: My parents and I just got back from Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols at the National Cathedral. Written in 1942 it was performed by the choirs of girls and men with a harpist. The text is in Middle English. It was lovely and haunting, and an interesting change of pace from our family's traditional carols and lights service.
Jury duty is intellectually interesting and emotionally difficult. The other jurors continue to be lovely, interesting, and for-the-most-part rational people so I think it's as good as it could be. I mean if bad things didn't happen to people we wouldn't have to be there.
Friday my parents flew in and we had dinner with them and my uncle at his house. Then six of us (my uncle's friend came too) went to see the Nutcracker at the Kennedy Center. It was really lovely. I hadn't seen the Nutcracker since I was a little girl so it was really fun to see it again. The production was neat and the dancing great. My uncle knows the head of the costume section so afterwards we went backstage. It was fun to see all the sets and props and to stand on the stage.
Yesterday we hung out with my parents at our place until my sister and her boyfriend arrived. We had dinner at my uncle's with two of my cousins who are in town and a bunch of my uncle's friends. There were probably about 15 people and it was a really nice mix of family and people I hadn't met. Tonight we're going out to Notti Bianche.
Merry Christmas!
ETA: My parents and I just got back from Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols at the National Cathedral. Written in 1942 it was performed by the choirs of girls and men with a harpist. The text is in Middle English. It was lovely and haunting, and an interesting change of pace from our family's traditional carols and lights service.
